Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision represents something of a final throw . |
| 2 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 3 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 4 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 5 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 6 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 7 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 8 | Half the people in the study received nothing from a formal agency and the authors conclude that the Social Fund ‘ is largely irrelevant to most real-life situations within which the poorest people find themselves ’ . |
| 9 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 10 | Frege argued that in asserting an existential proposition one is in effect saying something about the relevant concept , namely that certain things fall under it , or , conversely , that nothing falls under it , i.e. that the concept is empty , as the case may be . |
| 11 | This force possessed none of the gentle , coaxing qualities associated with telepathic races . |
| 12 | Such sarcasm ill becomes anybody on the shaky ground that Goldschmidt here treads . |
| 13 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , The Logic of Fantasy has something of a two-world structure of its own . |
| 15 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 16 | Thoroughly wet wood has something like a third of the strength and stiffness of completely dry wood . |
| 17 | The Vevay Beauty range covers everything from the latest cosmetics to skin and hair care — every product thoroughly clinically tested and selected for you individually to suit your colouring and skin type . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour . |
| 19 | Stone is utterly convincing in his argument that the 1857 Divorce Act had nothing to do with perceived changes in the economic conditions of the labouring poor during early industrialization and everything to do with lawyers ' determination to do something about the chaotic state of the law . |
| 20 | In Britain by contrast Althusser 's greatest impact occurred in the decade that followed : from the late sixties his work constituted something like a hegemonic ‘ theory in dominance ’ . |
| 21 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 22 | Earlier , McWalters barrister , Hugh Vass , stressed his client 's ‘ exemplary character ’ and pointed out that letters of character reference included one from a retired police sergeant . |
| 23 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 24 | Designed with the shell of the old smiddy and adjoining cottages , the inn retains something of the original atmosphere . |
| 25 | Figure 4 Daily counting chart to show how often a child does something within a given period of time Source : M. Herbert , Behavioural Treatment of Children with Problems ( London : Academic Press , 1987 ) |
| 26 | Bought clothing in the south had none of the hard-wearing qualities of northern home-spun . |
| 27 | The main barriers to growth have been the complexity of using the systems , their inability to handle anything but the simplest graphics , the high cost of connect-time charging and poor publishing decisions about which databases to offer online . |
| 28 | Say , for example , a nearby shop offers something with a normal cost price of £50 on 21-week terms , at 31 per cent APR ; but a town-centre shop ( 50p bus ride each way ) advertises it at 21.3 per cent APR . |
| 29 | Afterwards McEnroe finally agreed to hold a press conference — thereby avoiding a $10,000 fine following his refusal to attend one after the first round . |
| 30 | The second , call it " soft " conventionalism , insists that the law of a community includes everything within the implicit extension of these conventions . |